Fresh FC1 installation (tried 2 times).. first boot.. hangs at 'firstboot' :(

Globe Trotter itsme_410 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 10 16:31:40 UTC 2004


I had this problem, but that is because I had RAID set up and grub hangs on
firstboot. Do you have RAID on your system? In that case, I can tell you what I
did.

Thanks!

--- Joerg Battermann <jb at justbe.com> wrote:
> hey there :)
> 
> 
> i've got a more or less big problem with my fc1 installation. I installed 
> it using the official isos (3cds) and the dvd image from 
> <http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/>, just to make sure my images weren't 
> corrupt. the problem is, I can install everything just fine without 
> problems, but when trying to boot the system up, it always hangs at the 
> 'starting firstboot' .. completely... can't switch to another console.. 
> can't reboot etc...
> 
> I then tried accessing the ext3fs partitions to check the boot/dmesg etc 
> logs.. but they show no error-messages or whatsoever at all :(
> 
> any ideas what I could do? my system is a 3ghz intel p4.. so i also tried 
> booting up using the non-smp kernel.. no change :\
> 
> 
> sincerely,
> -Joerg Battermann
> http://www.justBE.com
> 
> 
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